Surface modifications of nylon/carbon fiber composite for improving joint adhesion
- UCL, ITRI, Hsinchu (Taiwan, Province of China)
Various methods were used to modify the nylon/carbon fiber composite surfaces, including grit blasting, flame and plasma pretreatments. The surfaces of nylon composites after pretreatments were characterized by contact angle measurements, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). XPS results show that several functional groups were formed after plasma and flame pretreatments. The scanning electron microscope (SEM) photographs suggest that the blasting pretreatment increased the surface roughness of nylon composites. All these surface pretreatments dramatically increased the lap shear strength if proper operation conditions were used. The reasons for the increase of lap shear strength were explained.
- OSTI ID:
- 441504
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-960214-; TRN: 96:006556-0037
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 19. annual meeting of the Adhesion Society, Inc, Myrtle Beach, SC (United States), 18-21 Feb 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the 19th annual meeting of the Adhesion Society; Ward, T.C. [ed.]; PB: 567 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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